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English Premier League coaches to help kick-off China’s plans to boost youngsters’ soccer standards

Shanghai is setting up elite training camps from children and citywide soccer leagues with 280 teams selected from elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities.

PUBLISHED : Monday, 30 November, 2015, 3:02pm
UPDATED : Monday, 30 November, 2015, 3:18pm

Keira Lu Huang
keira.huang@scmp.com



Plans to revamp soccer in China may see Shanghai employing English Premier League coaches at elite training camps for the promising youngsters, and soccer leagues featuring 280 teams from schools, colleges and universities. Photo: Xinhua

Shanghai’s most promising young soccer players may soon receive training from English Premier League coaches from clubs including Manchester City, Liverpool, and Tottenham Hotspur as part of a new initiative to boost standards in the sport.

A number of coaches from leading English clubs have shown interest in helping to train players, and will be offered “reasonable salary requirements”, the Shanghai news portal Thepaper.cn reported.

Some Premier League coaches, including Liverpool’s Darren Bowman, attended last Friday’s graduation ceremony of the mainland’s first class of business administration students, who took a soccer capital management course at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s business school.



China's President Xi Jinping is a keen soccer fan and wants to boost the standard of the sport in his nation. Photo: Reuters

The call by President Xi Jinping - a keen soccer fan - for China to boost soccer training among teenagers has led Shanghai to set up citywide soccer leagues involving 280 teams from elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities.

Regular matches will be played during normal school terms, while summer competitions and international invitational matches will also take place.

The coaching plans will see each district in the city required to set up four 25-member “elite training camps” for the most promising young footballers aged under 11, under 13, under 15 and under 17.

Each camp include a technical director, chief coach, assistant coach and a goalkeeping coach, which will include foreign coaches.

A large amount of money is being spent on the soccer initiative, Thepaper.cn said.

Shanghai’s education bureau said a special fund had been set up to finance the training camps and district governments were being asked to contribute similar amounts asthe municipal government.

Matthew Forbes, Britain’s Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, told the news website that coaches were keen to go to work in China because “they are positive about the future of Chinese soccer”.






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